A fantastic and underrated album in a catalogue of continuous achievement. Gossip about John Lennon’s ‘lost weekend’ sometimes undermines the quality of the music produced during this period.

Scared, Steel And Glass, Nobody Loves You When You’re Down And Out, the collaboration with a young Julian Lennon closing the album, and the instrumental nod to Paul McCartney: Beef Jerky, are some of my personal highlights, but the whole album is in need of some retrospective appreciation.

LP has a couple of light scratches, plays through fine with occasional surface noise.

Sleeve opening is along left edge (similar pressings have the opening along the top edge). Has some grazing to top right corner as well as some shelf and spine wear - the flip strips are secured but both have small splits (please see picture). Top edge also has a seam split.

“Possession is nine-tenths of the problem.”

- Dr. Winston O’Boogie

On the 23rd Aug. 1974 at 9 o’clock I saw a U.F.O.

J.L.